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Alternatives to Prison Detention in France: much ado about law, little about criminology KU Leuven
This article first sketches the political and social context in which the discussions about alternatives to detention in France are to be situated. It then analyses the existing alternatives by explaining their legal and criminological rationale and sources, and goes on providing a short evaluation of the alternatives to detention. It concludes with more information about alternatives to detention for specific categories of persons.
Two decades of European criminology : exploring the conferences of the European Society of Criminology through topic modelling Ghent University
The added value of the criminology of place to the research agenda of environmental criminology : core propositions for unexplained mechanisms Ghent University
The foraging perspective in criminology : a review of research literature Ghent University
In order to explain how crimes are carried out, and why at a particular place and time and against a specific target, crime studies increasingly harness theory from behavioural ecology, in particular Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT). However, an overview of their main findings does not exist. Given the growing focus on OFT as a behavioural framework for structuring crime research, in this article we review the extant OFT-inspired empirical crime ...